Spending a day on a paradise island and watch turtles lay eggs and for hatchling to be released makes for a wonderful day.

We set out in fast stretched cabin cruisers for Turtle Island. The boat ride was fun, we sped across the Sulu Sea for over an hour before we arrived at the small tropical island, where we were shown our rooms. During …

We were up at 6am for an early breakfast then off back to Sandakan for the next stage of our tour - Sepilok.We arrived at Sepilok in good time, so we bagged a comfy seat for the video and learnt all about the orangutan santuary and the British Charity which also helps them. After the video we were taken to watch the feeding session. There were lots …

Our alarm was all set for an early start and I was very excited to finally be going to Turtle Island, after booking it such a long time ago.The next thing we knew there was a knocking on the door,it was Stu trying to wake us up as we had over slept! For some reason Ollie's phone had turned off so the alarm hadn't gone off. It was a good job Stu was …

Sorry this has taken a while to reach you. We have had a busy time moving around a great deal and very little access to the Internet. Zara reporting; =========== We flew to Sandakan which is on the coast of north Borneo. We travelled by speedboat to Turtle Island. We went snorkelling and saw loads of purply/blue clams trapped in the coral. There …

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... morning and enjoyed an hour long boat trip over to Pulau Selingaan (one of the turtle islands) located within the turtleislandpark about 40km off the coast. The park actually consists of three islands where they carry out the same conservation work on ...